Dm F
I'm a legionnaire, camel in disrepair
G Bb A
Hoping for a frigid air to come passing by
Dm F
I am on reprieve, lacking my joie de vivre
G Bb A
Missing my gay Paris in this desert dry
Dm F
And I wrote my girl, told her I would not return
G Bb A
I've terribly taken a turn for the worse now, I fear
Dm F
It's been a year or more since they shipped me to this foreign shore
G Bb A
fighting in a foreign war, so far away from my home
[Chorus]
F C
If only some rain would fall on the houses and the boulevards
Gm Bb
And the sidewalk bagatelles (it's like a dream)
F C
With the roar of cars and the lulling of the cafe bars
Gm Bb
The sweetly sleeping sweeping of the Seine
Bbm Dm
Lord, I don't know if I'll ever be back again
F G Bb A
La Da Dum Dum La Da Da Dum
[Verse 2]
Dm F
Medicating in the sun with pinch doses of laudanum
G Bb A
Longing for the old fecundity of my homeland
Dm F
Curses to this mirage! A bottle of ancient Shiraz
G Bb A
The smattering of distant applause is ringing in my poor ears
Dm F
On the old left bank, my baby in a charabanc
G Bb A
Riding up the width and length of the Champs Elysees
[Chorus]
F C
If only some rain would fall on the houses and the boulevards
Gm Bb
And the sidewalk bagatelles (it's like a dream)
F C
With the roar of cars and the lulling of the cafe bars
Gm Bb
The sweetly sleeping sweeping of the Seine
Bbm Dm
Lord, I don't know if I'll ever be back again
F G Bb A
La Da Dum Dum La Da Da Dum
[Interlude]
Dm F G Bb A
[Chorus]
F C
If only some rain would fall on the houses and the boulevards
Gm Bb
And the sidewalk bagatelles (it's like a dream)
F C
With the roar of cars and the lulling of the cafe bars
Gm Bb
The sweetly sleeping sweeping of the Seine
Bbm F
Lord, I don't know if I'll ever be back again,
C Gm Bb
be back again, be back again, O be back again
F C Gm Bb Bbm
Oh oh oh oh oh, la la la la, la la la la, oh oh oh oh
